"Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays."
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"Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust."
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"June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible."
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"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live."
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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"There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem."
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"The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does on film."
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"Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it."
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"Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years."
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"Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding."
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"Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"
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"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."
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"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see."
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"It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish."
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"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material."
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"Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!"
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"What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'"
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"If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass."
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"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."
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"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"
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